- Wedding on the way! After numerous splits and reunions Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel finally decided to get married. According to sources, the two got engaged in December. Justin and Jessica have been dating since 2007.

- Hasty? Rash? One thing is certain, Sinead O'Connor changes her mind quickly, even when she has to make important decisions. The singer married Barry Herridge after 3 months of dating, decided to separate after 16 days from the wedding and now she’s announcing the rekindled flame through a series of tweets. "We decided to be together and not separate,” she writes. We’re all waiting for your next route to change, Sinead.

- Ashley Tisdale has a new flame: Taylor Swift’s ex, Martin Johnson. The two spent New Year’s Eve in New York. They were photographed together as they were going to the restaurant and on their way back to Los Angeles, still together. A romantic escape which definitely didn’t please Swift. Taylor was reportedly really in love with Martin, but she was forced to split from him for image reasons.

- Dustin Hoffmann‘s daughter has found love. According to rumors, Ali is dating The Sitter’s star Jonah Hill. According to sources, the two of them have known each other for a long time and grew up together. "Jonah is good friends with Ali’s brother, Jake,” a source says. "Dustin discovered Jonah when he was still a student.”

- Buying a present to a Hollywood star, who of course has got everything you can imagine, is definitely not easy. That’s whyAngelina Jolie made quite a bizarre choice. For Christmas and for Brad Pitt’s 48th birthday, the actress bought him a waterfall. Now he’s said to be planning to build a house in that area, inspired by his favourite American designer: Frank Lloyd Wright.

- In a murder mystery worthy of a movie plot, police have launched an investigation following the discovery of a woman's body on the Queen Elizabeth II's Sandrinham Estate in Norfolk. "We are at the very early stages of the investigation and it could be a complex inquiry," says Detective Chief Inspector Jes Fry. "The body had been there for some time. The circumstances suggest this is a murder case and we are looking at missing persons reports and cold cases both locally and nationwide." A major police inquiry was launched after a dog walker discovered the woman's remains on New Year’s Day just a mile from the Royal Stud and less than two miles from the estate’s main residence. The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh, who are currently staying on the 20,000-acre estate for their Christmas break, were informed of the discovery on Monday night. The body was discovered shortly after the Royals attended a church service on Sunday.

- Au revoir! David Beckham is staying with the Los Angeles Galaxy after turning down a chance to join Paris Saint-Germain. Following weeks of negotiations, the soccer star ultimately decided he didn't want to relocate his wife Victoria Beckham and their four children from the United States. PSG President Nasser al-Khelaifi said the team was "a little disappointed. But both sides agreed it would be better that we not do the deal... Maybe in the future." Beckham will reportedly try to finalize a new, rolling one-year contract this week with the Galaxy, which was paying him an annual base salary of $6.5 million.

- Things are getting serious! Ryan Gosling welcomed in the New Year with his two leading ladies: girlfriend Eva Mendes – and his mother, Donna. After spending some quality time together earlier in the day Sunday, the mother-son duo met up with Mendes to go to an AMC movie theater in uptown Manhattan. "They all hung out and went to the movies together," says a source. "Ryan and Eva seemed very happy." Gosling and Mendes, who first stepped out together in September, jetted from Los Angeles to New York City on Friday. The couple were spotted getting cozy when they left Manhattan's Bowery Hotel for a party on New Year's Eve. "While they waited for a cab outside the hotel, they kept kissing," says an onlooker. "They both looked very happy."

- Elton John has announced his first choice to play him in the planned biopic Rocketman: Justin Timberlake. "He played me before in a David LaChappelle video of Rocket Man and was superb," says the veteran musician. The video Timberlake appeared in was for This Train Don't Stop There Anymore, in which he portrayed a Rocket Man-era version of Elton John. The film is "going to be a surreal look at my life, and not just a factual look at my life," says the singer, "more in the manner of a Moulin Rouge!" An announcement is forthcoming about will direct, he adds. The Rocketman script is being written by Lee Hall, who wrote Billy Elliot; Sir Elton will produce.

- Jonah Hill's 28th birthday party at La Descarga in Hollywood was quite the star-studded affair. According to Us Weekly, Hill's Moneyball co-star Brad Pitt came out for the bash, as did Angelina Jolie and Zooey Deschanel. Pitt and Jolie stayed for about two hours at the fete. "They danced a little bit," adds the source. "Angelina had a glass of wine in her hand." The couple - who let Hill live in their New Orleans home for four months while he was filming 21 Jump Street - left around 12:30 am, right before the dance party got crazy. According to a source, Deschanel was "tearing up the dance floor" while DJ Bobby French spun for the night.

- Hot mama! Jessica Alba flaunted a trim bikini body in Mexico on Monday, just four months after giving birth to daughter Haven. The actress showed off her toned physique in a hot pink bikini in Cabo San Lucas. So how did Alba, who is also mom to 3-year-old Honor, get back in shape so quickly after her pregnancy? "I have 1,200 calorie meals delivered," she told Lucky magazine. "But I also work out, so basically I'm starving. It sucks. I drink a lot of water." But Alba told Us Weekly she didn't go "too crazy" dropping her baby weight. "I didn't gain as much weight with my second pregnancy, so I think that really made a big difference," she said. "I did prenatal yoga up until the very end. I just made healthier choices. I started working out and not going too crazy, but I did what was safe and what the doctor approved."

- Days after Russell Brand filed for divorce from Katy Perry, the estranged couple rang in 2012 on opposite sides of the globe. Brand reportedly spent a low-key New Year's Eve at London's Savoy Hotel with friends. When a hotel patron wished him a Happy New Year, Brand is said to have replied: "Here's hoping it gets happier." Meanwhile, Perry was presumably still in Hawaii – where she was vacationing with friends, including one who Tweeted about a "last day in paradise" on New Year's 2012.

- Patrick Swayze's widow Lisa Niemi Swayze has penned a new memoir, chronicling her late husband's brutal bout with cancer. Worth Fighting For: Love, Loss and Moving Forward chronicles the star's 21-month battle with pancreatic cancer, from his diagnosis to his last days. Sharing the story in print form was certainly "very tough," says Niemi Swayze, who co-wrote Patrick's autobiography, The Time of My Life, published just after he died on September 14, 2009, at age 57. But, she adds, "The way I see it is I'm not creating any more pain than I already have. I was able to release a lot of things that I held on to very, very tightly." And for readers enduring the same struggle, "maybe I can help pull other people along with me", she says.

- Kim Kardashian holds the title of tabloid queen for 2011. The reality TV star ranks number on USA Today's Celebrity Heat Index, which measures exposure in celebrity news magazines and on websites. The media relentlessly chronicled her engagement, marriage and subsequent divorce from Kris Humphries. And for the first time, British royals make the cut, thanks in large part to eighth-placed Prince William's wedding to Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge (who takes third place) in the spring. Jennifer Aniston (2), Angelina Jolie (4), Brad Pitt (5), Jennifer Lopez (6), and Sandra Bullock (7) were among those who made the top 10.

- Usher is locked in a bitter custody battle with his ex-wife Tameka Raymond. The singer's former spouse asked a Georgia court last month for full custody of their two sons - claiming Usher has continually dropped the ball as a parent, including failing to get her permission to travel with their kids, hiring nannies without her approval. Tameka also claimed Usher callously closed her Saks 5th Avenue credit card - and now she can't take advantage of the "special benefits" the card offers. But Usher claims it's all lies, filing his own response in the ongoing custody battle asking a judge to reject Tameka's request for full custody, on grounds her allegations are false. The exes currently share joint physical custody of the boys. According to TMZ, Tameka has also tried numerous times to get the judge to force Usher to submit to a drug test. A trial date has been set for February 27.

- Daniel Craig, George Clooney, and Matt Damon take the cover of Vanity Fair’s February 2012 issue. The stars were recognized as Hollywood’s leading men and took part in Vanity Fair’s famed Proust Questionnaire. “If George Clooney could choose what to come back as, it would be his dog - as the actor states, ‘he lives better.’ The Descendants lead also admits to being displeased with his posture and considers patience the most overrated virtue. Daniel Craig values patience in his friends above all, but doesn’t like his knees, and you’ll never guess what he considers his most treasured possession - but then, we can’t really be sure,” the publication shares.

- Courteney Cox and David Arquette continue to be friendly despite their split. The exes spent New Year's Day together with their daughter Coco in Southern California. Reports X17Online, "Although David seemed a bit shy while out for a stroll with his family, Courteney and Coco didn't seem to mind all the attention." David's new flame Christina McLarty was nowhere in sight during the family outing.

- After almost 10 years at Hollywood's Kodak Theatre, the Academy Awards could soon be on the move again. This year, the show will decide whether to pack up its gold statues and move elsewhere. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences president Tom Sherak says the group would exercise a clause in its 20-year contract with the Kodak’s owners, CIM Group, that will allow the non-profit to explore other locations for the show. “Personally, I love the Kodak," says Sherak. "I’ll say that until I’m blue in the face. I’ve been there since the very beginning. But in the next year the Kodak and others will come to us and the [Academy] board will make a decision at some point.” The change wouldn’t happen until after the 2013 show.